Brexit Secretary David Davis and the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier are expected to sum up the state of negotiations on the UK's departure from the union later.
The fifth round of talks - the final discussions before a crucial EU summit on 19 and 20 October - are due to end.
The UK has been hoping EU leaders at the summit will decide enough progress has been made to open trade talks.
The UK is set to leave the European Union at the end of March 2019.
Transition period
The BBC's Kevin Connolly said there had been no indication of a breakthrough and this round of negotiations has remained "remarkably leak-proof".
EU sources have described a "constructive mood" without real progress and nothing has been said that suggests a sense of gathering momentum, our correspondent added.
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